I've been regularly sharing my progress with some close friends, and today I got the harshest criticism to date: My UI sucks, I ripped off reddit. But I really believe in reddit design of a post and tree style comments, it's a system that works and I'm just using it in my project. So overall feedback breakdown is 10% positive 70% neutral 20% negative. Most of the feedback is related to UI, so I'll leave some screenshots below.
I'm not good with UI design and I can't even justify buying fontawsome pro icon pack at this time. Yes, my choices of icons are dull at best and I understand that.
I was primarily focusing on functionality over looks, and making sure the UI is not tied up with business logic so it can be swapped later for better UI.
Is my current design so bad I should pull the plug on releasing until I come up with better UI? I was ready to release in about a week, not sure what to do now.
Login screen: https://i.imgur.com/P1zF3Mc.png Front page: https://i.imgur.com/31Q8RfQ.png New post: https://i.imgur.com/TMCoSHR.png Specific zip: https://i.imgur.com/pdRUo8y.png Comments: https://i.imgur.com/3eemeZZ.png
Sorry I can't post a link at this time I know you all would rather look at a live site instead of screenshots.